1. College Research

2. Agenda Research process Evaluating sources
Scholarly, peer-reviewed articles
Search tips

3. What Steps Do You Follow?

6. What Difficulties Have you Encountered in the Past?

7. What Did/Should You Do to Overcome That Difficulty?

8. Ask a Librarian for Help

9. Librarian Stereotype

10. Research Coach

11. Librarians Develop a search strategy Find resources
Refine your research question
Develop a search strategy
Find resources
Identify tips or tricks for searching
Troubleshoot problems in searching
Check your citations

12. Questions?
Do you see any problems with this study?

13. Information Creation Cycle
Informal commun-ication
Social media TV
Online news sources
Newspapers
Magazines
Journal Articles
Books
Reference Books
Information Creation Cycle
Hand out worksheet

14. Source Evaluation

16. What is the Purpose/Motive for Sharing the Information?

17. Purpose Entertain Persuade Advocate Inform/Educate Analyze
Entertain – youtube, flickr, social media, etc.
Persuade – political websites, product websites
incite/scare – biased websites, doomsday websites
Educate/inform – health websites, organizational websites, educational websites, government websites, and scholarly journal articles
Advocate – similar to persuade, they are informing you about a cause and calling you to action.
Analysis – scholarly journal articles and lit reviews and books.
Many sources may fall into multiple purposes (e.g. books)

18. Purpose Entertain Persuade Advocate Inform/Educate Analyze
Entertain – youtube, flickr, social media, etc.
Persuade – political websites, product websites
incite/scare – biased websites, doomsday websites
Educate/inform – health websites, organizational websites, educational websites, government websites, and scholarly journal articles
Advocate – similar to persuade, they are informing you about a cause and calling you to action.
Analysis – scholarly journal articles and lit reviews and books.
Many sources may fall into multiple purposes (e.g. books)

19. Who is the Intended Audience?

20. What is your Information Need?
Informal commun-ication
Social media TV
Online news sources
Newspapers
Magazines
Journal Articles
Books
Reference Books
What is your Information Need?

21. Scholarly vs. Popular

24. Reading a Scholarly Journal Article

25. Questions?
Do you see any problems with this study?

26. Library Website

27. Questions?
Do you see any problems with this study?

28. Ask a Librarian Call us at 610-409-3607
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Schedule an appointment
Go to the Library’s main desk and ask for a librarian